OK...34GB!!! My iPod holds 120GB...that's about exactly the extent of all my music and audiobooks, which would take about a year to listen to. All in a row. And on a daily basis, the average American consumes 1/4 of that information. Staggering.
One hour of high-quality video is about 1.5GB; these clowns ae saying we use 34GB of information a day! That has to be wrong. You'd have to be watching videos and listening to music at the same time about 18 hours a day, while reading three articles at once at all times to use that much info.
Here's from Wikipedia: I have the radio on at work for 9 hours every day, so that background noise is worth 5GB. If I go home and watch TV for 2 hours, that's 17GB right there. That's 22GB alone. Factor in all the other stuff throughout the day, 34 doesn't seem too unrealistic.
34 GB? Pffft I got that beat easy. Office job (HR) so tons of digital, written, and spoken stuff. I always have to have radio or TV on when not at work even when I am on the computer gaming or pronning or Phins stuff. Actually 34 GB seems low. Edit: Oops re-read the in our free time part. Still got it beat.
I suppose. Still, think about how long it takes to watch or listen to the contents of a couple DVDs, and it's amazing still that the average is 34GB. Yeah - just in your free time!
Are you saying that Nabo does the money shot on his Ipod to help recreate the illusion that he is the man in the video? Who jizzes on their Ipod?
Counting TV would be the only way this would come close to being right. They might also be counting every bit of information that a website has on it when viewing websites, but I wouldn't consider that digesting of information. For example, you guys all have avatars and some sigs, but I'm not actively taking in that information, it's just kind there.
Sad thing is, most of the media we watch/listen to is probably heavily compressed too... I think if they wanted to do an actual study though like that, they'd have to consider the medium moreso than the message (where they watching/listening from instead of what they are watching/listening).
